Introduction

Somewhere along the road I meet Hodward Epper, a talented photographer. We are heading the same way, and Hodward climbs in. Along the way we become inseparable, invisible friends. Hodward is also a pupil of Hopper’s. We combine our strength. The camera is swapped for the screenshot. The journey goes on, image by image; in order to take a picture you don’t even need to leave your chair. The after-work is huge, but we live in pictures, after all. We plan and tweak, our visions blur together. By a careful process of choosing and framing, and through persistent editing we can filter from the Street View scenes of something that’s at the same time of the past but also of the future. Ominously nostalgic: fascinatingly filmic, virtual, but unfortunately real. At times beautiful still: if not always light, at least with light present; stealthily almost iconic features enter the images. As if we were receiving ossified postcards from another time…

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Romantic Geographic Society R.G.S.

RGS is a hypothetical - poetic construction, a conceptual frame, but somehow it has been also a working organization. It was founded in 1994 after long lasting romantic and geographic activity & field work. RGS have organized expeditions, joyful picnics and adventurous explorations. The quantity of the society's activities has changed through the times. The most visible activities have been exhibitions and lectures. Rgs was founded by the artist Jussi Kivi. The active member of the organization have been also the artist, passionate amateur researcher and writer Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen. Also the RGS member of honour, artist and passionate wanderer Tero Kontinen has been an active member of the society.

Since 2008 RGS have been in collaboration with The School of Esoteric Geography (S.E.G.). Today RGS is principally part of an amorphous and great, free society of individual explorers and researchers. Successful cooperation has been done: meetings, conferences and expeditions.

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